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Stupid Edward. How could he do this to her? She'd been there for him her whole life. Giving him a place to stay after his mother passed away, fixing his automail when he did something dangerous again. She'd always been his best friend. And yet, just now he had practically screamed at her he wanted to go screw some guy. What had she done to deserve this?

Winry didn't even try to hold the tears back, she just let them flow. People stared at the crying girl as she walked through Central. She didn't care.

"Winry?" her head shot up at the familiar voice.

Winry wiped the tears off her face as quick as she could and tried to smile convincingly. "Oh, hi Riza." She waved at the woman sitting outside a café.

"What's wrong?" came the semi-concerned voice of the lieutenant. "Are you crying?"

Winry was just about to tell her everything was perfectly fine, but all that came out of her mouth was a loud sob. And yes, the tears came back full force. Soon after, she was sitting next to the lieutenant, crying into her shoulder and soaking her uniform. It took her a while to be able to calm down again. Only then she noticed the glass Riza was holding.

"I didn't know you drink." She commented.

Riza gave her a skeptic look. "I don't. Only to celebrate… or to forget." She said with a sigh.

"To forget, huh. Well give me a glass of that."

"What happened?" Riza asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I don't know if I should tell anyone." She said. "I could ask you the same thing though." She added after a short pause.

"Tell you what. First you tell me your problem, and then I'll tell you mine."

"Deal." Winry agreed after some thought. "But don't tell it to anyone. I won't either." After a nod from the other woman she started her story. "Just now, Ed came to see me, saying he needed to tell me something important. And he tells me it's something that was going on for a while already, but he never had the guts to tell me. And I thought… I thought… well, you know." She had to fight back her tears again. "But then he just screams "I'm gay damn it!" out of nowhere. And that's when I hit him with my wrench and ran away." She sighed. "I don't understand him… to chose some guy over me. And I don't even know which guy." She looked up to see Riza's reaction. To her surprise, Riza didn't even seem shocked.

"I do." She simply said.

"You do?" Winry asked confused. "But how? And more importantly, who is it?"

"Colonel Roy Mustang." Upon hearing this, Winry almost fell out of her chair.

"No way! That's not possible, you have to be mistaken!"

"And how's that?" Riza wanted to know.

"He's always complaining about him, and saying how much he hates that guy! And besides that, he's way to old for Ed. He just can't be in a relationship with him!"

"Well, apparently they don't know that. Cause I'm pretty sure I saw the colonel pinning Ed to the wall in his office yesterday, lips locked and his hands under Ed's shirt."

"No way! What did you do?"

"What every sane woman would've done." Riza said. "Shoot."

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Light came trickling trough the blinds of the bedroom. Ed pulled the covers over his face, shutting out the annoying brightness of a new day. Ed was not a morning person. Luckily, neither was a certain Flame Alchemist that pulled the squirming boy closer in his sleep. But what was even better: he didn't have to make excuses anymore to explain to Al why he didn't come home that night. He felt relief at not having to lie to his brother anymore, but also a strange kind of sadness at the loss of the excitement of their secret. Oh well, there were still many more people they had to keep it a secret from, and many ways to be discovered. Discovered… like how Riza discovered them in Roy's office and almost shot them. If something like that was how it was going to be every time someone walked in on them they had to make sure to be more careful in the future. And now he was on the topic of angry women, he still had to talk to Winry. She would leave for Risembool at about noon. With effort, he managed to open his eyes and take a look around Roy's room. When his eyes fell on the alarm clock on Roy's nightstand he was instantly wide awake. He jumped out of bed, forgetting for a moment about his lovers arms, which were still wrapped tightly around his waist, causing him to fall to the floor and waking Roy up in the process.

"Wh-wha…?" Roy managed to mutter.

Ed quickly got up from the floor. "I need to get to the station." Ed explained. "Winry's gonna leave any minute now." He threw on some clothes and left Roy's house, running all the way to the station.

When he arrived he was completely out of breath, but he didn't care. He looked around, searching for Al, who was easier to spot due to his size. He'd probably come with Winry to say goodbye. Edward was surprised when he couldn't find them anywhere. Was he to late? He looked at his watch. No, Winry's train wouldn't leave for another five minutes. He searched the station again, without success. At this time, the train to Risembool had already departed, with still no sign of his brother and friend.

Ed was beginning to get a little worried. Had something happened? Or maybe Winry had left with an earlier train. Maybe it had something to do with his confession yesterday. Damn, if that was the case he wanted to smack himself in the face. With his automail hand. Hard. Ed had to stop himself from jumping to conclusions. He decided to go check his and Al's apartment. Al could probably tell him what was going on.

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"Brother, what are you doing here? I thought you were with-" Alphonse cast a nervous glance around the apartment. "the colonel." He added softly when he deemed it safe.

"I was. But just now I wanted to see Winry off at the station, but no- What are you doing here?!" Ed interrupted himself when Winry appeared behind Alphonse. "Shouldn't you be on the train to Risembool?"

"It's nice to see you too, Ed." She replied, a little to happy to be convincing. Ed walked past Al and sat down on the couch.

"I didn't want to leave while things still were like this." Winry said, sitting across from him.

"I uhh, I'm going to the library." Al said, and left the apartment, leaving the two alone to talk.

After Al left there was a silence. Winry fumbling with her fingers nervously, and Ed to stubborn to say anything.

"I-I'm sorry, Ed." Winry finally started. "For how I reacted yesterday. I overreacted, but it was such a shock." She looked at Ed, continuing when she didn't get an answer. "I mean, I hadn't expected you to be… you know… and specially not with him. To be honest, I still can't believe it fully."

"I thought you'd understand Winry, that's why I wanted to-" something made Ed stop in his tracks. "Wait a minute, how do you know whom I'm with? I didn't tell you, did I?"

"Al and I talked about it, and he mentioned it." Winry explained. "I was quite surprised to hear it actually." She admitted.

"And why's that?" Edward wanted to know.

"Please Ed, don't sound like that. You know I don't want to offend you or anything. It's just, you always say you hate him so much and he's so much older than you, and on top of that, have you heard the rumors about that man?"

"You shouldn't trust every rumor you hear." Ed answered coolly, not liking the fact that his lover was being insulted right in front of him.

"Ed-"

"You don't know him like I do!'' he cut her off. "Listen Winry, I told you about it cause you're my friend and I thought you'd understand. Clearly I was wrong. I don't see a reason for us to have this talk anymore." Edward wanted to stand up and walk away, but Winry stopped him.

"No Ed! I want to understand, really. It's just… I have to get used to the whole idea. That's why I'm not on that train to Risembool. I don't want to run off like a scared little girl. That's why I've decided to say for a while longer, to be able to get used to it." Winry looked at him, pleading, almost begging him to believe her. And he couldn't do anything else.

He let out a sigh. "Thanks Winry, I'm glad you want to understand."

Winry got up and gave the smaller boy a hug. "I have to go now." She said. "I'm supposed to meet up with someone." She walked to the door, but before leaving she turned around once more. "Whatever happens, I'll still be your friend Ed. Sometimes it may take me some time to accept your choices, but eventually I will." And with that she was gone.

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"Did it work?"

"Oh yeah, he totally believed me." She grinned. "Do you have the preparations for tomorrow?"

"Of course. I said I would have it ready, didn't I?"

"Perfect."

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"Ed, would you calm down already? What's gotten into you?"

"Well, we've got to go to work today, don't we?"

A sly grin appeared on Roy's face. "You've never been one to avoid work. Or would you rather stay in bed today?"

Ed ignored the suggestive tone in Roy's voice. "You know it's not about the work. I just don't like the idea of getting a gun pointed at me again. Or at you for that matter."

"Don't worry baby, I'll talk to Riza." He tried to lean in for a kiss, but he was pushed back rather roughly instead.

"Not in public, idiot."

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"You asked for me, sir?" the lieutenant asked when she entered Mustang's office.

"Ah, yes Hawkeye. I wanted to talk to you about what happened a couple of days ago." A shiver ran down the blond woman's spine at the calmness with which the words were spoken.

"Forgive me, Sir. I was foolish and acted on impulse. I will accept the punishment you wish to give me."

Roy stood up from his desk and walked over to Riza, putting a hand on her shoulder and flashing a kind smile at her. "I don't wish to punish you. I just wanted to know if you were okay." At this, he got a confused look. "Well, it's obvious we scared you pretty badly, you wouldn't point your gun at your commanding officer otherwise."

"I… I'm fine, sir." Riza spoke.

"Good." Roy smiled, taking a few steps backwards and putting some distance between them. "Now, FullMetal doesn't have a mission or leads for the philosophers stone right now. So he will be helping you with your paperwork today."

Riza nodded, saluted and left Roy's office.

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